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Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
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Like the self-proclaimed “Spiderman” who climbed Chicago’s Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, “ILLINOIS”, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. More…

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Tracklist:
  1. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL
  2. The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good…
  3. The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
  4. Come On! Feel the Illinoise! - Part 1: The World's Columbian Exposition, Part 2:…
  5. The Seer's Tower
  6. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
  7. Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt From My Sandals…
  8. Jacksonville
  9. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From the Dead!!…
  10. A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good Reasons
  11. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong,…
  12. Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!
  13. One Last "Woo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
  14. Chicago
  15. Casimir Pulaski Day
  16. The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders - Part 1: The Great Frontier, Part 2: Come…
  17. To the Workers of the Rockford River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your…
  18. In This Temple, as in the Hearts of Man, for Whom He Saved the Earth
  19. Prairie Fire That Wanders About
  20. Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way…
  21. A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an…
  22. The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!